De Buriatte John PhilipBritishSecond Lieutenant2nd Bn. East Surrey Regiment2728 october 1887 , Aylesford , Kent12 march 1915Son of William Warwick de Buriatte and Mary de Buriatte, of The Mill House, Wraysbury, Staines. His brother Warwick Huxley de Buriatte also fell:- Lieutenant , Royal Garrison Artillery Died of wounds 19 october 1918 Wraysbury St. Andrew ChurchyardSingleEducated at Dulwich College and Manchester University where he studied in the Faculty of Technology , in chemical technology (paper manufacture) 1905-08Messines Ridge British CemeteryPlot II , Row B , Stone 3

Military Footsteps

191228 october 191414 february 191512 march 1915

Joined the Artist's Rifles Proceeded to France with them as a SerjeantCommissioned in the 2nd East Surrey RegimentKilled in action while leading his platoon at Lindenhoek

Leadbeater AlexanderBritishRifleman14th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles4220 september 1874 , Emscote , Warwick28 june 1917Son of James and Mary Leadbeater of Leamington​He married at Birmingham , 30 september 1905 Mary Edwards and lived at 33, Edwards Rd., Erdington, Birmingham.Educated at Bluecoat School , Walsall and the Railway Servant's Orphanage , Derby​After serving with the colours he was employed as a Postman at ErdingtonMessines Ridge British CemeteryPlot VI , Row B , Stone 37

Queen's medal with clasps

Military Footsteps

April 1892​1899-1902

17 may 191528 june 1917

Enlisted in the North Staffordshire RegimentServed in India and EgyptServed in the South Africa Campaign where he received the Queens Medal with claspSubsequently joined the ReserveRe-enlistedKilled in action by a shell while in the front line

​His Chaplain wrote :'He was buried on the ground which hehelped to take from the Germans, wo that his great sacrifice has not been for nothing'

Gazetted to the 21st Lancers in 1912 before going out to India. At the outbreak of war he was home on leave from India and went to the front with the 9th Lancers. He was killed near Messines during the First Battle of Ypres.His squadron had been forced out of their trenches, had retaken them and had yet again been compelled to retire when he was killed during the final evacuation. He was the first officer of his regiment to be killed in the war

His cousin, William Thomas Payne-Gallwey, an Etonian in the Grenadier Guards, fell during the Battle of the Aisne on 14th September 1914 and is commemorated in Sessay Church and his sister, Florence Mary Payne-Gallwey was to lose her only son, also a Wykehamist – Lieutenant John Philip Utterson-Kelso , 2nd (Armoured) Battalion, Grenadier Guards – killed in action in Normandy in August 1944.

Gazetted Second Lieutenant to the 2nd Dragoon GuardsJoined his unit in South Africa and acted as Aide de Camp to the Commander-in-Chief General Sir Henry Hildyard.Promoted LieutenantRetired and after a year and a half spent in the Argentine returned to England in January 1912.Joined the 4th Special Reserve Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers as CaptainProceeded , at the outbreak of war , to France attached to the 2nd Battalion.​Killed in action at Ploegsteert